Capsa Technology Inc is a fintech company focused on streamlining and bridging the financial woes of SMEs in Africa – starting in Nigeria, have built a platform that gives businesses a smarter path to cash at cheap rates within 48 hours – called ‘ Getcapsa.com ’. Getcapsa.com turns unpaid invoices into working capital and avoids bad debt that cripples their businesses by building an Exchange/platform that allows businesses (especially SMEs) to convert their receivables to tradable assets for Fun...
Nov 21, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Faster and smarter real estate management! SILQU is a fast-growing, most advanced Smart technological platform with a focus on Real Estate. Aiming to bridge the gap between Real estate needs and Technology with an advanced USSD/web app-based Proptech platform that helps landlords, property managers, and other property owners streamline rent management, tenant management, and facility management with an inbuilt accounting platform with superior efficiency and ease in a smart way. FAST Founder Ser...
Oct 13, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 11
An African Startup that is addressing all but three of the United Nation's Sustainability Development Goals! Tumaini La Maisha translates to Hope for Life as a means of providing both clinical and non-clinical care to children with cancer FREE of charge. An operating NGO, TLM aims to support the most vulnerable and poorest populations of the world. About 85% of Childhood cancer arise in low to middle-income countries where the need for care is the greatest and access to recourses substantially. ...
Oct 07, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Taimba is a mobile-based cashless business-to-business platform that connects farmers to retailers. The first of its kind in East Africa for a Data-Driven Food supply chain Platform. By organizing farmers into various farm groups, Taimbia supports them to improve farm productivity and ensure they access consistency in the market and fair prices by shortening the agriculture supply chain. In this episode, we took an inside look into the world of agriculture. Check out the Full in-person interview...
Sep 29, 2022•28 min•Season 1Ep. 9
K-12 Plus is an offline-first app and syncs properly on a 0.5 Mbps connection. It employs teacher bots and virtual and augmented reality “mixed technologies” to deliver universal K-12 education offline. The app revolutionizes the K-12 education system with high-tech technologies to aid pedagogical and administrative processes, thus transforming schools into “SMART” schools and enabling schools to achieve their goals more efficiently. All over the globe there is a lack of access to early educatio...
Sep 21, 2022•15 min•Season 1Ep. 8
African Startup and FAST Accelerator Founder, DAYDONE , Agriculture e-Commerce Platform brings farm produce and experience (using data) to the doorstep and fingertips of every customer. DAYDONE is easing the distribution chain from farmers to markets through their online marketplace. DAYDONE allows farmers to focus on farming while they aid in increasing demand by managing marketing, pricing, packaging, and delivery with technology and digital transformation. DAYDONE gathers market and produce p...
Sep 14, 2022•16 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Agriculture and Technology are joining forces to create a more sustainable environment! Visual and AI Solutions (VAIS) is a deep tech company that develops an all-in-one innovative AI-powered platform called FarmGATE. This platform covers the full spectrum of services needed for advanced precision farming. VAIS crop analytics enable monitoring and detection of plant biotic and abiotic stresses, yield, and nutrients whereas its irrigation analytics enable for detection of soil salinity and moistu...
Aug 17, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 6
A simple cost-effective way to provide and receive healthcare without all the mess! Snark Health is the next generation of healthcare built around the Doctor-Patient relationship. Helping patients improve their access to healthcare and lower their cost of care. Snark Health helps doctors make more money through the Hippocratic Coin® alternative payment model with “data as a common resource” using blockchain technology, liquidity pools, and a trusted payment network, without the need for governme...
Aug 10, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Hire, Manage, and Pay your global team! Pade HCM , a startup based in Lagos, Nigeria, is building Africa’s largest database of verified earners, via end-to-end HR and Payroll technology. A business optimization product that helps simplify, automate, and efficiently execute HR and administrative tasks for businesses in Africa with a strategy to deploy software that is quick, nimble, and easy to use without rigid workflows for a dynamic range of businesses. Built applications include Employee Info...
Aug 03, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Lynkwise , a startup based in Windhoek, Namibia, is the first company to completely digitize a manual industry. Lynkwise aims to give banks, insurers, and tech companies an easy alternative to collections via direct payroll integration. Any financial institution, any payroll, any employee. This #africastartup is used by the largest banks and insurance companies in Africa, thus changing the way Africans used financial services. Learn more about their Payroll Deduction Management Platform which ha...
Jul 27, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 3
KaCyber Technologies, a startup based in Kampala, Uganda, is on a mission to provide digital ticketing solutions for the transportation sector in Africa. The African continent is experiencing one of the highest rates of urbanization globally. KaCyber provides robust digital ticketing and payments systems that help transport and logistic businesses/operators generate more revenue while decreasing their operational costs. KaCyber’s digital ticketing and payment systems offer a frictionless and int...
Jul 23, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 2
FAST Founder Series is designed to amplify the stories of startups from across Africa, share how their founders are leveraging technology to scale sustainable operations, and foster a global community of entrepreneurs that inspire innovators all over the world. FAST Founder Series is presented by FAST Accelerator, a startup accelerator program from Flapmax and Microsoft. https://www.fastaccelerator.com
Jul 19, 2022•1 min
Listen in on our very first podcast release with the FAST Founder Startup: LegitCar. LegitCar was chosen out of 800+ startups to participate in the FAST Accelerator Program, built to upskill startup companies teams, find customers, hire talent, build with AI, and raise funds, quickly and sustainably. We had the pleasure of hosting CEO, Vincent Okeke , and CTO, Samuel Ogbujimma sharing their mission and experience under the FAST Accelerator program. LegitCar is a digital service that helps users ...
Jul 17, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 1